Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-2163
2007-09-18 03:14:30
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.6.22.6
Release     : 81.fc7
URL         : []
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Update to official Linux 2.6.22.6 (from 2.6.22.6-rc1):
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.6

- libata: add option to disable DMA on PATA devices
  (libata.pata_dma, see kernel-parameters.txt for details)
- libata: fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x (#242229)
- libata: fix cable detection on pata_via
- fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation (#241935)
- fix init of huawei 220 modem (#253096)
- LVM: fix hang and lockups during snapshot (#269541)
- net: fix oops with zero-length packet
- USB: three trivial fixes
- futex: fix compat list traversal
- CFS scheduler update
- utrace update (#248532, #267161, #284311)
- wireless driver update

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Sep 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.22.6 (official)
- libata: add option to disable DMA on PATA devices
- libata: fix DMA on ATAPI devices with it821x (#242229)
- libata: fix cable detection on pata_via
- fix vmware's broken SCSI device emulation (#241935)
- fix init of huawei 220 modem (#253096)
- LVM: fix hang and lockups during snapshot (#269541)
- net: fix oops with zero-length packet (#253290)
- USB: three trivial fixes
- futex: fix compat list traversal
* Wed Sep 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- update CFS scheduler
* Tue Sep 11 2007 Roland McGrath <roland at redhat.com>
- utrace update (#248532, #267161, #284311)
* Thu Aug 30 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update bits from wireless-2.6 and wireless-dev
* Thu Aug 30 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.22.6-rc1
* Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- enable the i82365 ISA PCMCIA driver
- CFS scheduler bugfix
* Wed Aug 29 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix time distortion in pm_trace (bz 250238)
* Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- remove IRDA quirk for SMC controllers (#260481)
* Wed Aug 29 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- CFS scheduler v20.5
- disable 64-bit DMA for atl1 network adapter
* Fri Aug 24 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update wireless-dev bits (mac80211, rt2x00, b43, ssb)
- Add patch to keep old firmware format for b43
- Add at76_usb driver
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- CFS scheduler v20.3
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- V4L/DVB: fix airstar hd5000 tuner
* Fri Aug 24 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- fix 3ware 9000 controller DMA fallback (#251729)
* Thu Aug 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.22.5
- CFS scheduler v20.2
- fix Pegasos PS/2 port detection
* Wed Aug 22 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.5-rc1
- un-revert genirq changes
- add new genirq fixes from upstream
- ALSA: fix ad1988 spdif output
- ALSA: mutiple stac92xx codec fixes
- libata: fix pata_via driver on ppc pegasos platform
* Tue Aug 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sky2: don't clear PHY power bits
* Tue Aug 21 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Hibernation: do not try to mark invalid PFNs as nosave
* Tue Aug 21 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.4
* Thu Aug 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix symvers warning on install of debug kernel.
* Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sensors:   fix wrong values with some chips
- r8169:     fix polling
- forcedeth: fix wrong OUI for PHY
- SCSI:      fix async scanning
- sky2:      4 patches from maintainer
* Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- enable ACPI_DEBUG in -debug builds
- fix e820 memory hole sizing on x86_64
- export GFS2 symbols for lock modules
* Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.22.3
* Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- ACPI: fix broken conversion of older FADTs
- ACPI: fix possible corruption of GPE list
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- revert "don't BUG on too-large memory allocation"
- limit memory allocated by input force feedback drivers
* Tue Aug 14 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update wireless-dev bits (mac80211 & ssb updates, bcm43xx -> b43 rename)
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- update CFS scheduler with upstream patches
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_NET_RADIO (#251094)
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.2
- serial: revert changes to port detection
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- don't use incremental patches for -stable updates
- update CFS scheduler patch
- update utrace patches
* Wed Aug  8 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update wireless bits (upstream fixes, iwlwifi and bcm43xx updates)
* Wed Aug  8 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add xt_statistic.h to header list for iptables
- detect broken lapic timer on some dual-core AMD systems
- don't BUG on too-large memory allocation
* Tue Aug  7 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- mac80211: probe for hidden SSIDs during when scanning for association
* Mon Aug  6 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (bcm43xx & zd1211rw updates)
- mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP (2nd try)
* Fri Aug  3 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Disable busted mac80211 local multicast filter patch
* Thu Aug  2 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi, rt2x00, & zd1211rw updates)
- mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP
* Wed Aug  1 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- fix crash in xfrm4
* Tue Jul 31 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- fix softmac deadlock.
* Fri Jul 27 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi & bcm43xx updates)
- Remove hunk of linux-2.6-wireless that was reverted upstream
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- revert upstream "genirq: do not mask interrupts by default"
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- fix DMI strings in HP notebook quirk for ALI controller
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sync the CFS scheduler timekeeping changes with upstream
* Fri Jul 27 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- Update PlayStation 3 support (#249217)
* Wed Jul 25 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Wed Jul 25 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- kernel requires newer version of cpuspeed
- pata_hpt37x: Fix 2.6.22 clock PLL regression (#249254)
- atl1: possibly fix DMA bugs (#249511)
* Wed Jul 25 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- Restore bcm43xx functionality
- Restore PowerMac suspend-to-ram via /sys/power/state
  (since userspace forgot how to use the PMU ioctls)
- Restore ofpath functionality (IDE_PROC_FS=y)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ only in -debug kernels
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS (should fix #249211)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- Re-enable aes-i586 and twofish-i586 for i686 kernels (#249158)
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- SDHCI: clear the error interrupt bit
- ftdi_sio: fix oops
* Fri Jul 20 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- utrace update
- CFS scheduler update
* Tue Jul 17 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Tue Jul 17 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- gfs2: update to the latest
- sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output
- sched: fix newly idle load balance in case of SMT
- sched: fix the all pinned logic in load_balance_newidle()
- fix leaks of struct seq_operations
- fix leaks of ref to user struct
- pata_atiixp: add SB700 PCI ID
- ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming
- sdhci: add ene controller id
- sdhci: Fix "Unexpected interrupt" handling
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- bluetooth: hangup tty before releasing rfcomm
- driver core: get driver properly during release
- net scheduler: fix deadlock
- input: rfkill driver screws up the CPU flags
- acpi-cpufreq: make register write work properly again
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add proper caching of last_ctl to the 'unbreak SMART' fix
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Unbreak SMART on libata.
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Disable warnings that trigger due to disabled USB suspend.
* Fri Jul 13 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add more ATI SB700 ids to the ahci driver
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Some systems have a HPET which is not incrementing, which leads
  to a complete hang.  Detect it during HPET setup.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to
  serialize the PIT access all over the place.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Add back the rediffed PS3 patches.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- ata: update noncq list
- idr: multiple bugfixes
- tcp: sack fix leak msgs
- vbe: always save ddc data
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- Fix up some uname -r issues in certain kernel version
  cases (due to new versioning scheme)
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- jbd: fix transaction dropping (kernel oops)
- kvm: reinit real mode TSS on shutdown
- kvm: detect SVM disabled by BIOS
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sky2: re-enable lost interrupt workarounds
- aacraid: ioctl handler needs permission check
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- NFS: Add the mount option "nosharecache"
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Revert mkinitrd requires: bump to what's in FC7.
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Remove the x86-64 tickless patches, they aren't ready.
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.1
* Wed Jul 11 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch
- Add upstream version of rtl8187 patch
- Add updated iwlwifi driver from intellinuxwireless.org
* Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix issue with PIE randomization (#246623).
* Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.22
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Updated packages:

a9811af526926b75e7c5a28cb8ebb2281679c3ed kernel-doc-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.noarch.rpm
524dfc58fedbbef02cc2ee32bf7c7abb747b13dc kernel-headers-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i386.rpm
8ba2b018cd6163d9c999603141c5bc46d8ad08b6 kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
cbe62f6c9d6de69f1bcb9dc177b3cf74c9f40a90 kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
f9e88c78a60de073fd3a3bde81aab545a9269d69 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
8ef655964a311b62a70e1fdf0d91c750ba379447 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
4cf9c3806036b7c9d05af2184fa2a8f116cc0cd1 kernel-debug-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
406640fb69689b21297dbc5e8a5270083c3f5e0f kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
69e9173366c2dbea6e385553fc46c214566ad504 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
a23cddb78f0c7673c4dbb40e378392087ef57d97 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
4492f11838433bbfe7bc1c4873c4aa7789b8a670 kernel-PAE-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
d7b73191a8851ab100b9e56303f68add3d1a803b kernel-PAE-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
9a423809b28ca5fd9b1f851bd7169e3e7e59d786 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
ede9236aa564d1217e5db6c866539bece6af3744 kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
6261938c91ba6a0462a605ea9c6e68994abd114b kernel-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i686.rpm
acce9a47d954c63f41613d4e93ea430ab2cc6e73 kernel-kdump-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
cade8f950f2aadf130a47ce6586acf681d6d766b kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
021e67220a61e60f06b82b47bea7257cac49c640 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
f91736e180909fc05bde330c62c30952f87c58c2 kernel-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
eb8cd713d70c78372601e17a44ec4c8490b21daf kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
e9ddb3cadd965e861eaaf8b8cb3ae9ead8a11569 kernel-headers-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
451ab2319479b262c2e339468f6f20d232b85a85 kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
1c915e1d0671d4bfca67ecd6d424cbe3a8e46850 kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc64.rpm
f3e68d88bb121dec43ff9203df6e6e32b9aa4043 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i586.rpm
b04c5f72e5ea38bf919b2b900584e6cd3e6ecbda kernel-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i586.rpm
c0e7704bb6b8077205be8c6cf27d00b07925209c kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i586.rpm
cc8b6a83aa55fd71390df2af40f868fdae91fa0e kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.i586.rpm
42083aa6bc34f6be764fa39f9f3586af5c3a9bc3 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
f6808dfb4e163a30e0cb1ca849bc8ba7e4d0dc98 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
57da9c5bbcf2d1800302f4548802ee828b4b6ffb kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
f7eae36629dfbba8d07b801005dcef8bca584753 kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
78e0cca04b983c3e3f7829d9d1b3d19b25e38790 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
0d89c204f40ed08156dd1f2ff421ea8419e14bbd kernel-debug-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
40b19003a23e37ff4d8594b108692abab160fb88 kernel-headers-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
81746d770168b294262d22cf08209caf97ffa40f kernel-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.x86_64.rpm
6485be72fb98ff497784dde712a6eea21645c9bd kernel-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
2e71a6e94745051476e4ad12c99f9150d3d7478b kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
b0e03f29a52840fc6a976f23b603f6235a6ce6c3 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
5a8c5e175042711cbf946b860398cd4fdfdaeded kernel-headers-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
be30418caec22626f58fb8036e12a46aff20ef3e kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
814bdc22994b539428f9ca86e342a83a1ba3eed5 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
04649a7e2d2b68855f4e0a612ca2358f05573ece kernel-smp-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
3cbeee0790cfa3834e1009001c31402433a8eee3 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.ppc.rpm
684b9c5a828521a07c665d1d4e36f5474724fca2 kernel-2.6.22.6-81.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update kernel' 
at the command line.  For more information, refer to "Managing Software
with yum", available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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